Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 09:49:04 07/17/02
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On July 17, 2002 at 05:56:52, Nicolas GUIBERT wrote: > >>After reading the posts of others, I think that one thing should be made clear. >>I think you should decide what kind of tournament this is going to be, then >>develop the rest of it around it. For example, if it was going to be a "world >>championship", then (IMO) the goal is to determine the best engine in the world. >>If that is your goal, I would expect longer time controls... > >NO NO NO > >If you want to try and determine the best engine, do not play at longer time >controls !!!!!! > >BUT... Do play a lot more games with shorter time controls. > >Then you will get a more reliable result ! > >I have never understood why computer chess competitions are so slow. For human >players, this is understandable. For computers, it is just nonsense. I believe >that this has to do with history. The first competitions had to be played slowly >because the computers were terribly bad at Chess (low depths)... But that was 20 >years ago ! Computer science evolved quite a bit since then. > >Do you like playing random tournaments or do you really want to get an accurate >picture of the computer chess landscape ? We want serious chess and a Champion, not statistics. We have SSDF for that. Miguel
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